“Her enthusiasm and love for kiddy lit is contagious; what fun we all had!”

“…giggles galore!”

Teacher Workshops:

“Thoroughly entertaining; the day flew by!”

“All I can say is wow!”

“I can’t wait to get back to my classroom! This is just the jump-start I needed.”

“I can really use this stuff!”

“This should be a required college class.”

“I especially enjoyed the hands-on “make-it-take-its!”

Equipment Needed:

Podium

Microphone for large groups (lapel type is best)

Large table for displaying materials

Screen & overhead projector

Internet connection

Chair

Fee for Magical Story Time:

$500 for a full day in the Grand Rapids Area or within an hour drive.

$700 for a full day in other Michigan locations + expenses.

$800 for a full day outside of Michigan + expenses.

Workshops:

Come Teach With Me

A hand’s-on, very entertaining, and extremely useful, day-long workshop.

Runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with two 10 - minute breaks and an hour for lunch at noon.

Can be themed to whatever month or season of your choice.

Each workshop includes:

4 Make It Take It’s that we’ll do together. All materials provided.

How to nail report card standards using quick and easy art projects with supplies that you already have.

3 Center Activities that we’ll do together, + tips of how to tuck in and make time for science and social studies via centers.

How to design centers that you don’t have to keep dreaming up, but can change each day that revolve around the season or your theme that reinforce your standards.

At least one themed unit filled with Table Top skill sheets

A tremendous amount of teaching, organizational, and discipline tips.

Including a "Giving Directions Picture Icon set", "How many days left in the month?" paper chain activity, and a Number, Letter and Shape Hide Board Center.

Includes a copy of the student and teacher's edition of Keep These To Yourself + a copy of 170+ Ways to Get Your Students to Listenand Transition Effectively.

Several songs and games that promote math and other early childhood standards.

2 easy reader booklets that show Diane's effective easy reader program where students READ, TRACE, WRITE, SORT, SPELL, CUT and GLUE their way to reading proficiency.

1 ABC activity.

One 123 Activity.

A 50 page Calendar Help Book with lots of suggestions of how to teach report card standards and various subjects like math, science and language arts during calendar time. + the 77 page sister book Calendar Concepts.

A 300+ Dolch Flashcard set and ideas of how to play games and use these cards to reinforce your word wall and master site words, + the companion book Sight Word MIni Flashcards.

How to incorporate magic as an alternative teaching methodto help teach math, and science as well as introduce reading and writing concepts.

How to jazz up your story time to promote listening, reading, writing, math, science, and writing .

2 themed make-it-take it booklets that help your students learn specific standards in a fun way, that reinforce concepts of print , build vocabulary and sight word recognition.

Prizes

Access to Online resources

Teachers will need to bring:

Bag to carry their things in.

Box of crayons

Glue stick

Scissors

Ink Pen

Yellow Highlighter

Printed material from Online Resources. (They will be given a class code so they can download the information and print it.)

Hole punch this material and put it in your binder. or put hole punched paper in your copier and print it pre-punched and save time!

No less than a 3 inch binder (To keep printed material in.)

2 pocket folders with brads inside to put hole punched papers in.

A pack of index cards that are wired together that flip up.

20 clear sheet protectors.

Fee For Come Teach With Me Workshop:

$50 per person (Grand Rapids Area or within an hour drive. No less than 10 people.)

$50 per person + expenses for other locations. No less than 20 people.

Schools:

This makes for a wonderful Professional Development Day for your pre-school, young five and kindergarten teachers! If you have more than 20 teachers who’d be attending, I have special prices. Contact us for more information. diane@teachwithme.com We know your staff will LOVE this workshop! Workshop times for them would be from 8 to 3:30 with a ½ hour for lunch.